Sloper attachment for road planers or scrapers



T. RYAN. SLOPER ATTACHMENT FOR ROAD PLA NERS 0R SGRAPERS.

APPLl-CATION FILED APR. 7. 19:9.

'1 629,858. Patented Feb. 3, 1920.

UNITED STATES. PATENT onnron;

TIMOTHY RYAN, F LOVELAND, IOWA.

SLOPER ATTACHMENT FOR ROAD PLANERS 0R SCRAPERS'.

' Application filed April 7, 1919. SerialNo; 288,141.

- of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an attachment for excavator wagon loaders and scrapers or road planers by which the face of a bank may be sloped or cut ofl smooth, on an incline, after being plowed down bythe plow or excavator.

My object is to provide a simple, inexpensive and improved sloper attachment which has improved means for attaching it to the machine and for bracing the cutting blade that slopes or trims the bank. My invention constitutes an attachment which may be quickly and easily applied to, or removed from, any excavator wagon loader or blade grader or rotary planer, and set so that the cutting blade will be at any desired angle necessary to properly trim or slope the bank. Draft chains or cables are employed for pulling the sloping blade along and taking up the major portion of thestrain, although the clamps or attaching means used are of such improved form and arrangement that the device is securely attached to the grading or excavating machine.

The invention is set forth fully hereinafter and the improved and novel features thereof are recited in the appended claims.

in the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is aview-showing the sloping attachment connected to an excavator wagon loader, so much of the latter being shown as is necessary to a clear understanding of how the attachment is used;

Fig. 2 is a detail frontelevation illustrating the position of the parts when they are in use;

Fig. 3 is a plan view thereof; and

Fig. i is an end view showing .the relationship of the angle bar and the cutting blade.

The invention is shown applied to an excavator wagon loader but it is .just as well adapted for application .to a blade grader or scraper. One of the side beams of the machine frame appears at 1; the plow beam is shown at 2.

My invention appears in Figs. 2, 3 and 4; it is shown attached to the machine in- Fig.

Specification of Letters Patent.

chains for pulling the sloper along and Patented Feb. 3, 1920.

1. The sloper has an angle bar 3 of suitable length; in practice this may be seven feet long, but I do not restrict myself to any particular length. The bar is straight for the major portion of its length, but is preferably somewhat laterally curved or bent at what constitutes its lower end portion 4. The knife or cutting blade 5 may extend the full length of the bar 3 and constitutes a fiat piece of metal which is secured to the under side of the angle bar 3 by bolts 6 so as to be detachable for purposes of sharpening or renewal. The effective portion of the blade projects as shown in Figs. 3 and 1. An angle clamp 7 which is secured at 8 to the lower bent end 4: of the angle'bar 3, is provided with a yoke 9 having, suitable nuts 10, the legs of the yoke passing through one of the webs of the angle clamp 7. The angle clamp 7 is secured to the plow beam 2 by the yoke 9, which embraces the plow beam. The connection thus provided is very firm and there is little likelihood of slippage. Furthermore, the clamp thus provided enables the attachment to be applied to any point of the length of the plow beam, according to requirements. There is another angle clamp 11 which has a yoke 12 adapted to embrace the side beam 1 of the excavator frame. This clamp can be attached to any point of the length desired.

Suitable chains 21, 22 connect the lower and upper parts of the cutting blade 5 with the beam 2 at suitable points of the length thereof. The chains 21, 22 constitute draft largely taking the st ain ofi' of the clamps 7 and 11.

What I claim is: 1. A bank-sloping attachment for excavators or scrapers comprising a cutting blade, an attaching clamp secured thereto adapted for applicationto the excavator or" blade 5 may be positioned at bank will be trimmed or sloped at the angle cianip secured by said adjustabie brace, also adapted for attachment to excavator or scraper, said clamps and brace belng adapt ed for securing cutting blade out- Wardly extending and, upwardly inclined re lation to the excavator or scraper.

A bank-sloping attachment for excavators or scrapers comprising angle bar, a biade connected to one of the Webs of the angle bar, an upright clamp secured to the angle bar, an adjustable brace secured to the angle bar, and a. second clan'ip Which darried by the adjustable brace, said brace holding the angle bar and blade in upwardly inclined position, the aforesaid clamps being adapted for the attachment of the device to an Xcavator or scraper.

S, A bank-slopingattachment excavators or scrapers comprising an angle ha r, a blade detachably secured to one of the vvebs of said angle bar, upright angle ciampsecured to the angle bar and provided with a yoke, a brace comprising telescope sections and means for fastening themtogether at different points of contraction or extension, said brace having one cat its sections connected to the angle bar, a second angle clamp to Which the other section of the brace is connected and which is also The combination with excavator or scraper, a sloper cutting attachment comprising' a cutting blade disposed in outwardly extending upwardly inclined relation to the excavator or scraper, clamp" for securing said blade to the excavat r or scraper, a brace for holding the cutting; blade in upwardly inclined position, and another clarng carried by the brace for securing it to the excavator or scraper.

5, The combination With an excavator or scraper, of sloper attachment comprising cutting blade disposed in outwa 'dly extending and upwardly inc ied relation to the excavator or scraper, means connecting the cutting blade to the excavator or scraper, a clamp connecting the cutting blade to the excavator or scraper, an adjustable brace connected to the cutting blade holding it upwardly inclined position, and another clamp carried by the adjustable brace which also connects the attachinei t to the excavator or scraper,

in testimony whereof I ar h my signature.

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